Across the country, 2,832 people died in building and other structural collapses in 2013, and 1,821 in 2014, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
The accidents usually affect houses, apartment blocks, bridges and dams and usually involve shoddy construction, substandard materials and other breaches of building regulations. A majority of the deaths were from collapses of older, often poorly maintained structures.
The following is a list of the main such accidents in recent years:
July 2014: More than 60 people are killed when a multi-storey building collapses near the southern city of Chennai.
April 2013: A total of 74 people die when a high-rise residential building falls down in the western city of Mumbai.
November 2010: More than 65 are killed and 100 injured in a building collapse in Delhi.
September 2009: A chimney comes down at an power plant under construction in the central state of Chhattisgarh, killing 41 workers.
April 2009: Twelve workers are killed when a dam under construction collapses in Sikkim state, in the far north-east of the country.
September 2007: Fifteen people are killed when an overpass under construction collapses in the southern city of Hyderabad.
Source: GNA
